“A self-recovery journey” contains a series of illustrations in which dedicating to a trip to Guangzhou in April, 2021. After quitting a full-time job from the art world, it cost me much courage to fly to somewhere aches the heart. Meeting with people that were influential to my adulthood, re-discovering great work after drowning into the art industry for too long, finding what nature has Brought to this very place have all soothed my consciousness but yet created fresh anxiety and thoughts. As all of the subconscious faded throughout the past year, the river and palm trees remain vivid leading to more to come in the future.